Vera Brosgol. Roaring Brook/First Second, $15 trade paper (222p) ISBN 978-1-59643-552-0
Anya Borzakovskaya is one frustrated, grouchy teenager. She's embarrassed by her Russian-émigré mom; her little brother drives her bats; she doesn't fit in at school; she can't get the boy she likes to notice her; and her only weapons are her sharp...
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Vera Brosgol. Roaring Brook, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62672-442-6
Caldecott Honor–winner Brosgol brings her marvelous story-making perspective down to the forest floor, home to a band of diminutive creatures with acorn caps, red noses, full-body beards, and stick arms and legs. “Yes, we are small,” the Little Guys
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Vera Brosgol. Roaring Brook, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-250-31487-1
Young Freda lives with her sensible Gran, who reassures her when Freda can’t finish eating the perfectly ripe blueberries they pick: “Calm down, French Fry,” Gran says. “We can put them in a jar and save them.” Sure enough, when they’re made into...
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Vera Brosgol. First Second, $22.99 paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-31486-4; $14.99 paper ISBN 978-1-250-31485-7
Brosgol (Be Prepared) upends “The Little Mermaid” and sets it against a Dickensian backdrop in this tongue-in-cheek fantasy graphic novel. Most people—including her own parents—only give Jane Brown the time of day when making cutting remarks about...
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Vera Brosgol. Roaring Brook, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62672-441-9
Graphic novelist Brosgol’s (Anya’s Ghost) first picture book opens in a traditional folk tale setting as a Russian grandmother in a tiny cottage struggles to finish her winter knitting. She has dozens of grandchildren, and they swarm all over her...
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Vera Brosgol. First Second, $12.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-62672-445-7
Unlike her debut, Anya's Ghost, Eisner-winner Brosgol's second graphic work is a summer camp memoir set in the real world. Without fantasy elements to distract, execution is crucial, and Brosgol delivers. Vera, Brosgol's nine-year-old self, is a...
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Vera Brosgol. Roaring Brook, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-125029218-6
Life has been rough for fourth grader Oliver and his mother since his father died. After a short period spent unhoused, their luck seems to be changing for the better: Oliver’s idiosyncratic, recently deceased aunt Barbara bequeaths the duo an...
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